In the post Jolokia + Highcharts = JMX for human beings, Tomasz Nurkiewicz writes about using Jolokia ("HTTP/JSON bridge for remote JMX access") in conjunction with Highcharts ("free for noncommercial") to display JMX-provided JVM metrics in a web browser application. There are generic tools such as VisualVM and JConsole that can do some of this, but the flexibility and customizability of an approach like that demonstrated by Nurkiewicz can provide significant advantages in certain situations.

The PowerShell team is excited to announce that starting today we are licensing the language specification for Windows PowerShell 2.0 under the Microsoft Community Promise. This means that now anyone can implement PowerShell on any platform they want to.

There's much going on in the world of software development in general and the world of JVM development in particular. The posts I cited above are evidence of this and it is particularly exciting to see fresh new posts on subjects such as JMX, JVM actors with GPars, in-depth coverage of Java memory issues, and so forth.